An Israeli defense official on Saturday disputed American claims that the United States was not informed of a highly contentious decision by Jerusalem to label six Paleostinian rights organizations as terror groups, insisting Washington had been told in advance.
"Officials in the American administration were updated in advance of the intention to make this declaration and they received intelligence information about the matter," the defense official said, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
On Friday afternoon, Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced that half a dozen Paleostinian civil society groups — including highly prominent ones with significant backing and oversight from the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...and other international bodies — were being designated as terror organizations, asserting that they worked on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP) terror group.